Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (149 mails)

[Martin Vidner <mvidner@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:08:40PM +0200, Jan Kupec wrote:
> Michael Schroeder wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 06:08:19PM +0200, Jan Kupec wrote:
> > > Hi there, i'm finally back :O) The situation goes like this:
> > >
> > > - rug's service-* command were just aliases for the *repo commands of
> > >   zypper until 11.0
> > > - now that zypper is getting support for services, new *service commands
> > >   have been added, and the rug's service-* commands are now aliases for
> > >   these new commands.
> >
> > Why's there a different interface? Can't zypper just use the repo
> > command set and use type "service" for a service?
>
> Because it's quite different thing - it's a repository index, which  
> serves for auto-managing repositories on your machine - it's one level  
> higher in the repo management.
>
> You can't e.g. specify a service as the --repo (well, that could be  
> transformed into individual repos), you still need two different command  
> for listing services and listing repos (standalone and the ones from  
> services), and you still need to manipulate both the services, and the  
> repos they contain, which you can't do using one command set (how would  
> you e.g. disable a repository within a service?).

Compatibility!!

You can treat ordinary repositories as trivial services with a
single repo that is always subscribed. That way, "service" commands
will keep working on repos.

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Martin Vidner, YaST developer
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